Beauty and romance fill a 1796 New York tale pages
The piece blends verse on beauty with a prose romance set in New York City. It recounts Miss Lillywhite and Miss Angelina in fainting misadventures, and Laurie Todd's tale of a shoemaker couple who uncover a hidden corpse. The narrative shifts to a widow ClaRandall revealing her past as John Pelsue’s partner.
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John Lockwood
Liberty Street
New York
Daffy
Lillywhite
Miss Lillywhite
Selina
Angelin O
Mrs Lillywhite
Miss Lilly
Miss Angelina
Ilina
Miss Lynch
Angelina
Lisin
Angelica
Hartshorn
New-York
Maiden Lane
John Mowatt
Deaser
John Pelsue
John Peleue
Mowatt
John
John Pelsne
Mowat
Randall
Philadelphia
John Qonner
Census Law for 1850 Described and Licenses Discussed
The article outlines the 1850 census law covering population, professions, literacy, disabilities, slavery, land value, farming, livestock, industry, town and county names, taxes, schools, libraries, newspapers, crimes, labor costs, and wages. It then recounts a Frederick Herald anecdote in which a woman asks Dr Bradley Tyler about a governor license and whether to get a retailer or ordinary license.
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Frederick Herald
Bradley Tyler
Lam
Destroy Worms By Sulphur Insertion In Trees
A Boston Cultivator note advises destroying caterpillars by inserting half inch sulfur into the tree heart then sealing with a branch to make a airtight cavity. After forty eight hours the worm is claimed to be killed.
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Messas Eorrors
Boston
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Plainfield
William M. Drake
Front St. Oppos
Ona Presbyterian Church
J.C. Moses
GEO. W. & Jehial Read
Courtlandtst
Edward Deacon
Liberty Place
Cor
Gazette Office
Broadhead, Storm & Co
County Lan Street
WasmingTon
J. S. Dunham & Co
M. E. Purdy
Dunham, & Co
Peace St
J. & D. Clark
New Brunswick
Market Street
Newark
N. i
S. B. Potter
Barclay Street
West
Washington-sts
E. Kir
Main Street
N. B
W. Birt Plainfield
John Mills
Broad St
D. Bullman
Luman
Broad St. Newark
S. Macknet
J. Pound Old Bakery
April
D. Vail
Young's
Bowery
Hester and Yand Sts
Aoneash, Brown, Mporter & Jobber
Liberty St
D. B. Fuller
Keelar & Fuller
Cedar Street
Hadley
Greenwichst
Samuel Baker & Son
Church-St. New Brunswick
Jacob Stucky
N. J
Shepherds
GROAD
E. Drake
Elizabethtown
Phalon
ANS
A. Baldwin
Walker Street
Camphene
Girondoles
James G. Moffet
Frironst
Broadway
Broad Street
Plainfield Gazette
Cupid
FOR
the Gazette
Schenectady
Mangelina
Agelina
Jiar
Poin
Rogers
Laurie Todd
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